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Civil Defense in the United States: Bandaid for a Holocaust?
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Westview Special Studies in National Security and Defense Policy

Civil Defense in the U.S.: Bandaid for a Holocaust?

Thomas J. Kerr

To many, civil defense stands as a symbol of the futility of societys attempt to escape the consequences of its own creations. Unlike other areas of national security policy, civil defense has never attracted widespread support and has encountered constant difficulties in securing political and financial backing. In addition, rapidly evolving military technology has consistently eroded the substance of the program and its credibility in the eyes of the public.

This book traces the continuing endeavor in the United States to develop a means of protecting the American people from the effects of nuclear war. It is a story of frustration and, to a large degree, failure. The book begins with the pre-nuclear period of the two world wars, when political and organizational precedents were established that served as the basis for the Civil Defense Act of 1950. It then recounts the evolution of civil defense practices from the early 1950s to the present, during which time attention was focused, in tum, upon blast shelters, evacuation, fallout shelters, and, currently, crisis relocation. Dr. Kerr shows how the policies that have emerged are as much products of the political process as of weapons technology-how they reflect specific interactions between Congress and the executive branch in an environment marked by apathy on the part of the general public and hostility on the part of articulate groups.

Thomas J. Kerr is professor of political science at Central Washington University. He has served as a consultant to the Council on State Governments on state disaster preparedness legislation.

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Civil Defense in the U.S.

First published 1983 by Westview Press

Published 2018 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Kerr, Thomas J., 1931

Civil defense in the U.S.

(Westview special studies in national security and defense policy)

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

1. United States-Civil defense. I. Title. II. Title: Civil defense in the United States.

III. Series.

UA926.K47 1983 363.350973 83-1220

ISBN 0-86531-586-8

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-01985-3 (hbk)

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ABM	Anti-Ballistic Missile
AEC	Atomic Energy Commission
AFL-CIO	American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIA	Central Intelligence Agency
CJI	Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
DCPA	Defense Civil Preparedness Agency
FCDA	Federal Civil Defense Administration
FDAA	Federal Disaster Assistance Agency
FEMA	Federal Emergency Management Agency
FPA	Federal Preparedness Agency
FTC	Federal Trade Commission
GSA	General Services Administration
HCA	House Committee on Appropriations
HCAS	House Committee on Armed Services
HCGO	House Committee on Government Operations
H.R.	House of Representatives
ICBM	Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
JCAE	Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
JCDP	Joint Committee on Defense Production
NAS	National Academy of Sciences
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCRP	National Committee on Radiation Protection
NRDL	Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory
NSC	National Security Council
NSRB	National Security Resources Board
OCD	Office of Civilian Defense, 19401945; Office of Civil Defense, 19611972
OCDM	Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
OCDP	Office of Civil Defense Planning
ODM	Office of Defense Mobilization
OEP	Office of Emergency Planning
PD	Presidential Decision
PF	Protection Factor
P.L.	Public Law
SALT	Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SANE	National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
SCA	Senate Committee on Appropriations
SCAS	Senate Committee on Armed Services
SCB	Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
START	Strategic Arms Reduction Talks

The subtitle of this book is taken from remarks made by Congressman Edward M. Markey in a 1982 House of Representatives floor debate on the U.S. civil defense program. It reflects the awareness and concern of a growing number of people that the continuing buildup of nuclear arms threatens, as never before, the very existence of life on earth. Man has always prepared for war in an effort to preserve the peace. But in every age and in every place he has failed in this effort, and the weapons of destruction have usually been used to the fullest extent possible. Is there any reason to believe that this grim pattern has been altered today, even though the weapons themselves dwarf in power any that have ever been used before? Is the world of the 1980s very different from the world described by W. H. Auden on the eve of World War II?

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